How To Use Prank In A Sentence

In addition to the bonfires and community aspect, there seems to be a tradition of pranking and general misbehavior.
The incident was a prank that went wrong.
Actually, they call it "pranked," and you probably think I'm talking about famous Canadian-born SNL producer Lorne Michaels, but no, no, no ... or should I say "non, non, non? The Seminal :: Independent Media And Politics
The rascally youths had played a prank on Penguin.
So far, he's not aware of a train derailing or crashing as a result of such ‘pranks’.

One stray click and I'm rickrolled, prankishly diverted to the now-familiar footage of Rick Astley being devoured by a pack of London cannibals. Wired Top Stories
Brilliant and eloquent, he was full of jokes and pranks. Times, Sunday Times
So long as tutors and governesses only had to deal with their own pupils, all went well, but when the brothers and sisters were all together, and influenced by the spirit of insubordination and love of playing pranks which the elder ones brought back from school, we made life hard and sour to the preceptorial body. Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville
Students give him absurd names and wheel him out for practical jokes and pranks. THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT: The Scots' Invention of the Modern World
But the pranksters don't seem like overly reflective types, and that's to their credit.
Pre-wedding nerves can sometimes cause a groom to have a total sense of humour failure when a harmless little prank - shaving his eyebrows, say, or tattooing his cheeks - is played on him.
But he is a playwright by trade, and a smart witty guy, so it could all be some kind of situationist prank. My Roommate, the Streaker
The Meyer book turns out to have been sent by a pranksome VanderMeer, which I would have realized had I looked at the inscription on the title page: Cat Rambo
I am appealing to all mums and dads, please sit your children down and explain what distress and anguish they cause with their pranks.
In 1992, pranksters turned the horse into a zebra by using rolls of black bin bags to create stripes down the sides, and the association said there had also been attempts to turn it into an elephant.
It was only supposed to be a harmless prank. The Sun
Episode three revolves around a prank that goes horribly wrong and appears to have brought tragedy - tinged with jubilation - in its wake. Times, Sunday Times
an innocent prank
Whether these threats are the work of the same person or people who planted the explosive device, or misguided pranksters, they have multiplied the effect of the explosion.
The silly prank could have all gone horribly wrong. The Sun
Grandpa Captain Wilton, of before their time, but whose wild and lusty deeds and pranks, told them by their fathers, they remembered with gustoGrandpa Captain Wilton, or David Wilton, or "All Hands" as the Hawaiians of that remote day had affectionately renamed him. The Kanaka Surf
The local mischiefmakers played numerous pranks, leading to hilarious consequences.
The mom said “this went beyond a funny little prank …” – getting gut-punched and nailed in the berries is funny? EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Wedgie Sends Student to the Emergency Room
Related Terms & Expressions: la farce = stuffing une farce = a prank, practical joke un farceur, une farceuse = a practical joker farceur, farceuse (adjective) = mischievous tomates farcies = stuffed tomatoes farci de fautes = littered with mistakes se farcir quelqu'un = to put up with someone avoir la tête farcie = to have had enough (of another's shenanigans, of one's own problems) Ex.: J'ai la tête farcie! Farcir - French Word-A-Day
Brendan Gill, writing in The New Yorker, referred to some of his work as "boyish prankishness. A Maverick Master
The person who handled the call thought it was a prank and did not pursue it. Times, Sunday Times
An introvert by nature, he is also rated by team-mates as a ‘serial pest’ because of his willingness to participate in dressing-room pranks.
Some of the little folks we watch grow up to be young women, and occasionally one of them gets nervous, what we call hysterical, and then that girl will begin to play all sorts of pranks, -- to lie and cheat, perhaps, in the most unaccountable way, so that she might seem to a minister a good example of total depravity. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860
Students give him absurd names and wheel him out for practical jokes and pranks. THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT: The Scots' Invention of the Modern World
Whiston fire station officer Phil Brammeier blasted pranksters who fired a rocket firework through a letterbox in Scott Avenue.
o 'that kin', be 't as mad an 'pranksome as ever sic ploy could be, is to be made mention o' aside the things at was mutit (muttered) o ''s brither. Malcolm
In fact, in modern usage, ‘scoundrel’ can be a playful term referring to a prankster or banterer.
This is the sort of "prankishness" one imagines Kazin to have been complaining about and that no longer ” after fifty years of postmodern experimentation (and five Zuckerman books by Philip Roth) ” sticks in our craw. Justice to J.D. Salinger
I do wonder whether her barnet was a particularly cruel situationist prank. Ugliest Woman in Politics (more entrants )
She used to make me laugh when she told me of the harmless jokes and pranks she played earlier that day.
PrezHuddleston is a prankster, who makes his ruse explicit by putting the word "fake" in his profile name. College presidents around USA impersonated on Twitter
The groom and his men friends, being in frolicsome humour and knowing nothing whatever of oarsmanship, were playing great pranks to make the women scream at their daring. His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality
For all its prankish blurring of the lines between author/character and reality/invention, the book finally does present a compelling and complete account of the life of "Michael Martone," an account that really coheres around the other character introduced in that first Contributor's Note, MM's mother, and the city of Fort Wayne. Experimental Fiction
I was certainly not the first to be pranked this way - there are a slew of cases of angry pharmacists, disgruntled neighbors, and scorned ex-boyfriends using sites like Craigslist to recruit unwitting accomplices in their acts of revenge - I coined the term "crowdsourcing revenge" to describe the practice. Forbes.com: News
Many progressives defended the Congressman on the grounds that he said that he had been hacked, had been "pranked. Ron Mwangaguhunga: Why Anthony Weiner Should Sign on With Current TV
The pranksters had also stained it to make it look old.
Somehow, it exists in the netherworld between these two points, an amorphous mixture of intellectualism and juvenile pranks.
The night before Bonfire Night was once known as Mischief Night, when children would blacken their faces and play pranks.
A huge Belgian hit called "Benidorm Basterds," where senior citizens pull pranks on "regular people," was sold all over the world in the States Kinetic Content produced a local version, hosted by Betty White, for NBC. Omri Marcus: Why TV Genres Never Really Die
Arenas pranked, counseled and encouraged Young, providing friendship and brutal honesty. Nick Young wants to beat "big brother" Gilbert Arenas
Looked like it was from Stephen King in Bangor, Maine but that had got to be a prank address written in by one of my jokier friends. Kevin Killian: What I Saw at the Orono Conference 2008, part 2
He added: 'This was a drunken prank that got out of hand. The Sun
Weiner compounded his predicament by calling a cable TV producer a jackass, reeling off a string of ill-advised, double-entendre wiener jokes and essentially reducing what he calls a "prank" to NY Daily News
Police are warning that pranksters will be punished if they go over the top during the ‘mischief’ period around Halloween and Bonfire Night.
It almost seemed like a joke, a harmless prank one of his friends had pulled on him.
Being the younger child, she had always been pampered and now was always up to some pranks and tricks.
Before the practice took hold, some news directors, fearing pranks, were leery of airing amateur video.
That too is a heck of a stretch, while ignoring the nooses as "prankish" or whatever the call was to let it go. Jena: A Request
Bartolo; he is literally "astonied," and Figaro makes him the victim of several laughable pranks before he recovers his wits. A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music
One reveller has been questioned by police as a suspect over the prank. The Sun
Muldowney told police at the time it had been a joke or prank but now realised just how serious it had been.
Arenas, 28, pleaded guilty earlier in the year to violation of the district's gun laws by bringing four guns to the Verizon Center as part of what he called a prank on teammate Javaris Crittenton. Black Entertainment, Money, Style and Beauty Blogs - Black Voices
| Reply max, that was brilliant. daveD: Arrogant? you so don't know anil. anil: this post needs more of teh kittees. you also forgot fake steve jobs. you have to admit his prank last year was clever. liza Your April Fool's Day Joke Continues to Suck - Anil Dash
If I possessed this gentleman's ingenuity I might have whipped up a quick little prank like this in order to go viral on YouTube, however I just sat in the chair staring at the water waiting for a kind of pulsation like Jeff Goldblum in "Jurassic Park. The Water Ceiling Prank: Simple Yet Hilarious (VIDEO)
The silly prank could have all gone horribly wrong. The Sun
He said that for all his wise-cracks, pranks and tomfoolery on the screen, he was a ‘very serious’ person in real life.
The five, who had southern accents, were also said to have played sick pranks and music at high volume. The Sun
The second element, designed to keep the crowd smiling through the serious bits, is a series of pranks.
Some prank-pulling member of her parish was using ventriloquism. THE LAST REPORT ON THE MIRACLES AT LITTLE NO HORSE: A NOVEL
She becomes the victim of the Glue Man, a mysterious prankster who uses the cover of a blackout to put glue in girls' hair.
I bet he never thought he would get such a willing participant when he pranked us.
It almost seemed like a joke, a harmless prank one of his friends had pulled on him.
The girls became fast friends during the trip - mostly due to their pranks on Kevin together.
Her eyes laughed up at him through a dazzle of tears, and prankishly over her curving lips hovered a mischievous dimple. The Palace of Darkened Windows
Mr. Jackson has, in the past, done remarkable work with the uneasy departed, from the flesh-eating zombies of “Dead Alive” (1992) to the ectoplasmic pranksters of “The Frighteners” (1996) to, perhaps most memorably, the army of irritable spirits who come to the aid of Aragorn and Gandalf in the climactic battle of “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” (2003). IN THE WORLD OF MOVIES: NEWS FOR NOVEMBER 1ST | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews
He loved to tease, and numerous times his friends were the victims of his practical pranks.
Scott Walker got pranked by a caller claiming to be David Koch. Protests over state budget cuts, anti-union bills spread throughout U.S.
Brilliant and eloquent, he was full of jokes and pranks. Times, Sunday Times
Success at politics seldom depends entirely upon good intentions and is often torpedoed with a single strike by matters as trivial as boyhood pranks or otherwise pardonable youthful indiscretions.
The principal is also worried that pranks or problems involving other students will draw an inordinate amount of attention while the prince attends the university.
The person who handled the call thought it was a prank and did not pursue it. Times, Sunday Times
As a matter of fact, his screw-ups would make ours look like schoolboy pranks.
(Part of the affront of Phoenix's prank is that behind his vagrant's disguise, he dares to live a private life.) Joaquin Phoenix offers us a reality check on celebrity
We do not want to be dubbed killjoys but we do urge respect and consideration for others and ask parents to take responsibility for their children, ensuring well-intentioned, light-hearted pranks do not get out of hand.
Some prank-pulling member of her parish was using ventriloquism. THE LAST REPORT ON THE MIRACLES AT LITTLE NO HORSE: A NOVEL
In short, I have to thanks Verizon to enhance my six year old vocabulary with all kind of profanities and to have friendly customer support computer that seem to enjoy making telephone pranks. Verizon FiOS Customer Service Thinks You, A Human, Are Voicemail - The Consumerist
The skit was getting more and more vulgar and explicit, the volume was turned up far too loud, and it became evident to me that my driver was playing a prank.
There followed some schoolboy pranks up and down the corridors and, to cut a long story short, I ended up being locked out starkers.
The old Method bruiser plays a former military man who blinded himself in a silly prank but remains an arrogant bully. Times, Sunday Times
In our family he was the one that was playful, almost unruly, and often prankish. Times, Sunday Times
After these pranks, the second volume, covering the war years and their aftermath, was rather a let-down.
Pranks and mischief began to be played out to represent the mischievous behaviour attributed to witches and the fairies.
Lucy was a leprechaun, born to laugh and dance, play pranks and sing.
Paranormal Activity 2" frightens the "Jackass 3-D" pranksters out of the top spot at the box office and outdoes its predecessor in terms of opening revenue. Weekend box office: 'Paranormal Activity 2' dominates with $41.5 million
Denied direct expression, the pair's love powers a feud of point-scoring repartee and prankish acts of sabotage. Times, Sunday Times
Instead they decided on harmless pranks at a luxury boutique hotel. The Sun
Are they artists, pranksters or techno-saboteurs?
The prank revolved around Michael getting on a private plane only to find out it was falling apart.
The actor has enjoyed more than his fair share of media coverage recently concerning his whirlwind relationship and engagement, and then his soaking by pranksters on Sunday.
Williams High School students might "decorate" it as a graduation prank. Three Eggs in Space: Public art that the public loves or loves to hate
Most of the dares consisted of kissing or stupid stunts and pranks.
It was in really bad taste but meant as a prank and a joke. The Sun
So what else can we expect from the new run of the series that sees its star playing pranks on unsuspecting members of the public? The Sun
His lawyer described the incident as "a schoolboy prank" that got out of hand.
It had occurred before - she had tried tracing a prank video-mail that was sent to her and instead she ended up frying her computer system.
unseelie" does not me impish prankster. your unseelie red cap should be eating babies. your unseelie sluagh should be creeping out of the closet to bring terror to children- absolute, psyche scarring horror. your unseelie pooka should be telling the kind of lies that wreck a marriage, that cause a massacre. Mordicai: crown me king!
I had been pranked into calling 911.
More recently, he and some pals accidentally set his house alight after a firework prank. The Sun
The five, who had southern accents, were also said to have played sick pranks and music at high volume. The Sun
It is controversial whether sow false news on the net april fool's day an online prank.
Roses were pranking the lawn
You can reply to the text message to say that you can make it on the appointed date, but I suggest you call the landline, where you can verify that the text wasn't sent by a prankster. Archive 2009-01-01
And the Earl's old hawk, with its feathers all stiff and sparse, perched on the dossal of the Earl's chair and the floor was pranked with rushes and sweet herbs -- the first of the spring; and Githa's feet were on her stool, and she leaned her proud face on the small hand which proved her descent from the Dane, and rocked herself to and fro, and thought of her son Wolnoth in the court of the Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete
Our revels resulted in a stupid prank that made other people respond to a lie.
Some prank-pulling member of her parish was using ventriloquism. THE LAST REPORT ON THE MIRACLES AT LITTLE NO HORSE: A NOVEL
The Secret Service left open the possibility that the poll was a prank that could go unpunished. Times, Sunday Times
An ingenious story that mixes the usual dastardly deception with paranormal pranks. The Sun
Is the model a worthy or deserving target of prankish imitation?
Scott Noll, News 3 Reporter WAYLAND (NEWS 3) – It may have started as a prank, but police in Wayland have another name for Ryan Zylstra’s decision to take pictures of classmates having sex: a felony. EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Teen Faces Child Porn Charges For Posting Pics Of Friends
The young man struts, prances, like a kind of teenage prankster, with stink bombs and remote control detonators.
By the early-60s, following a meeting with the author Ken Kesey, Cassady had become the amphetamine-fuelled driver for Kesey's Merry Pranksters, a troupe of Californian hippies who piled into a brightly painted bus and set out to introduce the mind-expanding properties of LSD to the stuffy straights of middle America. The beatnik and the 'Bulletin: The Flaming Lips' Soft Bulletin sleeve
He has played many quips and pranks, as if to assure me he is no old sobersides.
Not to mention, my parents are going to think it's some joke or prank or something to get back at them.
Walking the gallery, we see them gradually transformed from craftsmen and aspiring gentlemen to bohemians, political agitators, philosophers and pranksters.
With their sneaky pranks and tricks, the cheeky chaps always make me laugh out loud! The Sun
We are idealists, anarchists, guerrilla tacticians, pranksters, neo-Luddites, poets, philosophers and punks.
The Secret Service left open the possibility that the poll was a prank that could go unpunished. Times, Sunday Times
I thought it was a prank call," says Gail Davis of Orpington, Kent, UK. $10K iTunes Winner Hung Up On Apple, Thought It Was a Prank
Police were inundated with calls throughout Sunday evening as pranksters gathered in large numbers, let off fireworks and attacked dozens of homes with eggs.
Student pranksters have done considerable damage to the school buildings.
This day dedicated to pranksters everywhere has been around a long time; the origin however, is lost in oblivion. 03.04
So does he now regret what was an admittedly misguided, but initially private, prank between friends?
It was a cruel prank to play. Times, Sunday Times
It was a cruel prank to play. Times, Sunday Times
Known for his pranks and sense of fun, he was expected to be a big morale booster in the camp. The Sun
With guerillaman aspear aspoor to prink the pranks of primkissies. Finnegans Wake
Tolkan lends his trademark bulldog intensity, while Monk gives her characters quirky grace and a hint of pranksterish glee.
The gorgeously mounted show by English street artist D*Face is fuel injected with Pop vernacular while kidnapping some Pop masters of the last half century with prankish lo- to mid-brow witticism. Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington: D*Face 'Going Nowhere Fast' In Los Angeles
He mentioned that prank calls had been received but he made no mention of a death threat.
They have gulled municipalities around the world into letting them stage their pranks, and the result is celebrity and riches.
Since I do not spend my time with childish pranks and games, they don't see me as one of them.
They were constantly flying airplanes over his house, and playing pranks like boiling water in his teakettle when he was away, trying to drive him insane.
The whole gang get kidnapped by students indulging in some sort of rag week prank.
Every day after school, she'd smoke a joint of marijuana and then proceeded to prank call my house.
A FILM crew member who almost killed one of his best friends when a drunken prank went wrong has dodged jail. The Sun
There might even be a prankster, a malevolent force, or a god who chooses to interfere.
Of course, message boards also attract attention-seekers, pranksters and malicious gossipers.
The term nipper tipping is a combination of the WWII epithet for the Japanese and the childish prank of tipping sleeping cows. Silly Immigrants, Canada Is For White People
One horse began kicking up, so, to give him no time for further pranks, I drove at a good round gallop, which quickly left the lovable jackeroo a speck in the distance. My Brilliant Career
Thus perplexed, "criticism approaches the form of fragment, pensée, or parable: it both soars and stutters as it creates the new text that rises up, prankishly, against a prior text that will surely repossess it" (Hartman, 75, 82). Bringing About the Past
They played a million pranks, using the fact that they looked like twins, became known as sharpshooters, but also known for never aiming at a human being, using their weapons to warn, not harm. 02/01/2004 - 03/01/2004
Daffy scares everyone with his pranking, but he gets his comeuppance when Granny and the kiddos give him a taste of his own medicine.
The old Method bruiser plays a former military man who blinded himself in a silly prank but remains an arrogant bully. Times, Sunday Times
Jason couldn't understand her sudden explosion of anger and he knew there had to be more to what was bothering her than the spider prank.
But he warned pranksters to watch out as the fire service was taking action to cut figures by a further five per cent each year.
He lost his easy affability, his prankishness, and much of his good humor. EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON
The fun started last week when, as the New York Times put it, "pranksters" lampooned Chevron's ad campaign. Rebecca Tarbotton: Does Chevron Think We're All Stupid?
Someone must have prank-called the ranger station. How to Flirt with A Naked Werewolf
He is one of the team downs, a prankster and jokester.
But I'm sorry, if you carry on the way he has over the last three weeks, you can only expect the English pranksters to come out.
Several of them slapped her (it didn't matter; her bruised and puffy face seemed to have gone numb), and one-it was Misha Alvarez, whose daughter Susan had taught to ride-spat into her eyes and then leaped prankishly away, shaking her hands at the sky and laughing. Wizard and Glass
The kid is squirting a “bisnaga” which was probably full of scented water, a typical 1820´s Brazilian carnaval prank. Boing Boing
There may not have been a case yet where a train was derailed by objects deliberately left on the line by young pranksters.
In other words, most Japanese comedy, both live and on television, has been closer to what Americans would term low-budget farce - physical comedians, often performing in traditional, vaudeville-style duos replete with a straight man - doing silly pranks that allows the audience to feel superior to what they are seeing on their TVs. News - chicagotribune.com
Leingruber has already designed several artistic, prankish and borderline illegal browser extensions, including the China Channel, which lets you experience the Internet as if you were in China, and Pirates of the Amazon, which let Amazon browsers easily download for free the products they were thinking of buying. Claire Gordon: The Anti-Facebook Revolution
Still these biker boys made out such things were mere pranks, a witty jape for a Sunday afternoon.
True, Oprah is not one for pranks at her expense but that was not the only reason she didn't speak to Letterman for sixteen years. Kitty Kelley: What's Behind the Oprah/Letterman Feud?
Though Anthony had a scruffy look, with his unshaved face, he also had a twinkle in his eyes that made almost everyone who knew him think twice on pulling a prank on him.
You have to be able to take a joke to work with some of the pranksters in our office.
The old Method bruiser plays a former military man who blinded himself in a silly prank but remains an arrogant bully. Times, Sunday Times
If one of us at the gym is playing a prank or a joke, he knows which of us has done it. Times, Sunday Times
He was a great practical joker, not unlike his character Abdullah, the spoilt princeling who torments Captain Haddock with his pranks.
A FILM crew member who almost killed one of his best friends when a drunken prank went wrong has dodged jail. The Sun
A childish prank by a future great artist? Times, Sunday Times
I think it was a school joke or a prank to make you think that there is someone that knows who you truly are.
We were pranked on the pretense of getting a job.
The game starts out innocently, with the usual childhood pranks and mayhem.
Related Terms & Expressions: la farce = stuffing une farce = a prank, practical joke un farceur, une farceuse = a practical joker farceur, farceuse (adjective) = mischievous tomates farcies = stuffed tomatoes farci de fautes = littered with mistakes se farcir quelqu'un = to put up with someone avoir la tête farcie = to have had enough (of another's shenanigans, of one's own problems) Ex.: J'ai la tête farcie! French Word-A-Day:
She always pranks herself up with the best clothes.
It was hard to imagine how that merry prankster and mistress of worthy causes could be subject to such punishing mood swings.
He was known as a prankster; on a tour of the Sistine Chapel in Rome he dressed up as the devil and terrorized penitents with a horsewhip.
One painted prankster in Kent jumped out at two men wielding a baseball bat - hilarious! The Sun
Triangular pink stickers were plastered everywhere, on Levi's, sweat shirts, high-top sneakers -- even, prankishly, on the backs of unsuspecting football stars. Tune In, Come Out
Becoming a Google rubbernecker -- gawking at someone's life from afar and finding something insulting or embarrassing there -- reminds me of the prank of pasting a "Kick Me Hard" sign on an unwitting victim's back. Pamela Haag, Ph.D.: In a Google World, Do You Have the 'Right to Be Forgotten'?
There will be no excessive pranking.
He pranked himself out in his best clothes
He used to enjoy streaking naked around the streets of his hometown and even got stopped by police for committing the lewd prank.
The outhouse is such a bad target for pranksters that I usually just go do my business somewhere else over a log. Messin' with your hunting buddies- no advice, just for fun- What's the funniest 'prank' you've pulled on your buddies?
In France, this took the form of pranksters sticking fish on the backs of those who celebrated the old custom, earning the victims of the prank the name Poisson d'Avril, or April Fish. Livescience.com
The practice began as a variant of an earlier prank originating from the imageboard 4chan called duckrolling,2 in which a link to somewhere such as a specific picture or news item would instead lead to a thread or site containing a photoshopped picture of a duck with wheels. Barack Rollin
Tom Cruise went off on a fake reporter for a new British prank show, after the reporter allegedly doused the movie star with a squirt gun disguised as a microphone.
The motivation appears to be entirely nasty and prankish. How crucial is it for food critics to be anonymous?
Now I must live with the fact that I'm no Swiftian satirist, or even just a prankster with a good idea. Kembrew McLeod: The Day I Killed Freedom of Expression
When Andrée sharply struck a solemn note she could not prevent the Perigordian string of her vocal instrument from giving back a resonant sound quite in harmony, moreover, with the Meridional purity of her features; while to the incessant pranks of Rosemonde the substance of her North-Country face and voice responded, whatever her mood at the time, in the accent of their province. Within a Budding Grove
To them it was a joke, some prank and they treated it like a day off.
The first time I clicked over to your site from a comment on Sweet|Salty, your blog title freaked me the fuck out and I was sure it was some kind of nasty prank. Write Like A Woman
Apparently, despite the availability of how-to videos on the internet, this particular prank is becoming less popular due to vast improvements in headset technology. Don't Hack Into The Taco Bell Drive Thru And Yell Obscenities At Customers - The Consumerist
They take a pride to prank up themselves, to make young men. enamoured, — [5850] captare viros et spernere capias, to dote on them, and to run mad for their sakes, Anatomy of Melancholy
Taking full advantage, he produced an entire cliché-defying book — one that despite a built-in pathos had an overwhelmingly prankish tone. A Close Read
Too bad that a couple of the shorts are little more than prankish writing exercises. Times, Sunday Times
He loved to pull pranks, like pulling a rubber glove over his head, or gargling with hydrogen peroxide to make his tongue turn white, or laying out pixie stick powder in lines and snorting it.
It's a prank gone wrong'. The Sun
But these harmless pranks soon take a dark turn. Times, Sunday Times
Alex Balk, the editor of Radar.com, wrote today that “pulling a prank on April 1 is a lot like getting blottered on St. Patrick’s Day: if you’re not doing it every day, you’re not really Irish.” Souring on April Fool’s Day - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com
Kerry will be presenting a show of wind-ups and pranks.

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